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The Taliban is trash, no doubts about it. But its not Turkeys job to bring these savages into the 21st century. Let them remain backward and let them remain open to constantly being invaded by white christian powers who will kill millions of them before leaving. Maybe tomorrow they get the chinese treatment instead. As Turks its not our jobs to support or help these savages.
A rational mind knows that Turkey in Afghanistan is good for Afghanistan and its people, but we are not dealing with rational people. Leave these morons to their fate, constant war, constant poverty and constant turmoil.
It's sad to see some users supporting the Taliban on this forum
The Taliban organisation consists of many Pashtun Extremist trash who have committed heavy persecution & war crimes (and still continue to commit might I add) against fellow Turkic origin Uzbeks and Hazaras which are another group of mixed Turco-Mongol origin.
Turkey should do all it can to protect Turkic population in Afghanistan
I wonder if the Taliban will succeed in creating a workable symbiosis between Islam and modernity. The Iranians tried and failed to a large degree. I expect the Afghans will fail too, not only because of geopolitical interference into their country but also to the inherent irreconcilability between Islam and modernity. But time will tell.What I find remarkable is that border crossings on the opposite side of Af-Pak border have fallen to Taliban. This goes against the common refrain that Taliban are merely a auxiliary of the Pakistan ISI. The fact is Taliban listen to nobody and have vast amount of traction within Afghanistan which goes across even ethnic lines. Many of these border districts are not Pashtun who majority is more toward the Pakistan side.
@GoatsMilk There is precious little to separate the Taliban from other warlords. Dostum has a record that would blush Hannibal Lecter. The fundamental reason for Afghanistan's arrested socio-political evolution is geography and history. They have been 'trapped' in mountains and lived out as a buffer betwen Tsarist Russia and the British Empire impervious to the change that was taking place. They are like a lab specimen from medieval ages.
With benefit of hindsight I wish Pakistan had not joined the US led jihad against Soviet Union in 1979. The Soviet Red Army arrived in Kabul in 1979 to save the Saur Revolution which had began under the communist rule of Babrak Karmal in late 1970s.
What was the revolution? It was Ataturk style purge and reformation of primitive Afghan society with a communist recipe. Education, female emancipation, purging tribal leadership and mullahs etc. This worked okay in the big cities like Kabul and soon comrades from Warsaw Pact like Poland, Russia, East Germany etc sent education, construction battalions to build a new socialist paradise in Afghanistan.
However this reformation caused a reaction from the conservative rural tribal leaders and mullahs. Had nobody intervened the Afghan communist party along with it's Warsaw Pact allies would have suppressed the reaction and within a generastion or by 1990s a new Afghan society would have emerged. In line with this 1,000s of Afghan male/female students were sent to Moscow, Berlin, Warsaw etc for education to be vanguard of a new Afghan society. Kabul even saw entire districts rise built by Soviet construction crews of high rise communist style housing.
But somebody did intervene. CIA got involved because it saw the rural yribal leaders and their mullahs as proxy to bleed Soviet Union. Soon Operation Cyclone the largest covert operation in history began. It saw raising of entire armies out of the rural tribal groups called Mujihadeen. Pakistan acted as US surrogate and Saudia Arabia provided dollars and religion.
As the Soviet backed communist regime wobbled the Red Army was sent in to secure the communist party rule. What followed was decade of war that led to Soviet defeat in 1989. So in a sense primitivness was cementified into Afghan society by great power rivalry.
At a political or national level it is simply impossible. You cannot resolve the contradiction. Islam is a religion and knows no boundaries, knows no geography and is global. This alone is irreconcilable with a modern nation state. Every Islam so called 'republic' is a fraud because it tries to shoehorn a religion within a legal and geographic construct. So for instance a Muslim in Pakistan if he follows Islam ought to show is empathy with other Muslims as opposed to other fellow citizens who might be Christian or athiest. In Pakistan legally citizenship is contingent on the normative definition of nation state. Meaning a Muslim from Saudia will be rejected by the Pakistani state but a Christian Pakistani will be protected by the state. This exposes the sham of the title 'Islam Republic'.I wonder if the Taliban will succeed in creating a workable symbiosis between Islam and modernity. The Iranians tried and failed to a large degree. I expect the Afghans will fail too, not only because of geopolitical interference into their country but also to the inherent irreconcilability between Islam and modernity. But time will tell.
It's sad to see some users supporting the Taliban on this forum
The Taliban organisation consists of many Pashtun Extremist trash who have committed heavy persecution & war crimes (and still continue to commit might I add) against fellow Turkic origin Uzbeks and Hazaras which are another group of mixed Turco-Mongol origin.
Turkey should do all it can to protect Turkic population in Afghanistan
Are you being serious or just flippant?Whats irreconcilable between Islam and modernity ?